This August, WCI sponsored Fatumata Bestman, a country cloth weaver and participant in WCI’s rural women’s program in Liberia, to attend a one-week training with Aid to Artisans at the New York International Gift Fair. Aid to Artisans is a non-profit organization that supports the economic development of artisans around the world through business training [...]
As part of the economic empowerment component of our program with rural women in Liberia, WCI is supporting production of country cloth—helping communities both earn a sustainable living and revive a long standing, traditional art form.
Country cloth is a hand made cloth weaved by setting up looms or wrapping thread around trees to create [...]
Following the production of Ruined this past Wednesday by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, WCI’s Executive Director Kerri Kennedy was invited to serve as a guest panelist in an audience discussion based on the issues touched upon by the play, including women in conflict zones and the role of women in post-conflict reconstruction.
The play [...]
GALS students listen intently to their Skype call with Liberian women
Students in WCI’s GALS program recently had the pleasure of Skyping with a few female counterparts in Liberia.
Lucy was one of the women in that call. After the call, she was so inspired from hearing other people’s stories that she wanted to share her own. [...]
On Saturday, April 30, as part of their global awareness education, the students in WCI’s GALS program had the great privilege of Skyping with young Liberian women from our Liberia office!
We’ve asked one participant from Liberia, Office Assistant, Jojo, and three GALS girls from our Philadelphia office, high school students Helena, Simone and Tion, [...]
We at WCI were fortunate enough to travel to Afghanistan in March (2011) to conduct a five-day Parliamentary Strengthening Workshop for 52 of the newly elected Afghan women Members of Parliament. Funded by the US Embassy of Kabul’s Afghan Women’s Empowerment Fund, the training consisted of capacity building and technical skills training that aimed to [...]
On Thursday, April 14th, Marjorie Margolies, Founder and President of Women’s Campaign International, testified in front of the US Congress’ Appropriations Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs in order to rally support for the investment in women’s related programming both at home and abroad. In doing so, Marjorie reaffirmed WCI’s commitment to advancing [...]
[ May 19, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] 10×10 Executive Director, Holly Gordon, and Executive Producer, Tom Yellin, will introduce the 10×10 project to the Philadelphia community on Thursday May 19.
Marjorie Margolies will present as the evening’s featured guest speaker.
10×10 is a groundbreaking film, a global social action campaign and an extraordinary opportunity: Investing today in adolescent girls living in the [...]
[ April 25, 2011; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau hosts an half-day event for young women and girls, on Monday April 25, 2011, at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.
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WCI President and Founder Marjorie Margolies will speak. Other invited women leaders include:
Sara Manzano-Díaz, Director [...]
On April 4, 2011 the WCI team attended UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s lecture at The University of Pennsylvania. The talk was the kickoff event for the Fifth Annual Global Colloquium of University Presidents and was entitled: “Empowering Women to Change the World: What Universities and the UN Can Do.”
In his speech, the Secretary-General reminded the [...]
